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SUBMITTER: Richardson RJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2729683 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Richardson Robert J RJ Blundon Jay A JA Bayazitov Ildar T IT Zakharenko Stanislav S SS
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20090501 20
Despite being substantially outnumbered by intracortical inputs on thalamorecipient neurons, thalamocortical projections efficiently deliver acoustic information to the auditory cortex. We hypothesized that thalamic projections may achieve effectiveness by forming synapses at optimal locations on dendritic trees of cortical neurons. Using two-photon calcium imaging in dendritic spines, we constructed maps of active thalamic and intracortical inputs on dendritic trees of thalamorecipient cortical ...[more]